About the Role
We are developing server applications for online gaming services, utilized by a vast global user base across consoles, mobile, and PC. Our services include features like messaging, voice chat, score rankings, and matchmaking, with ongoing expansion. This role involves requirement definition, design, coding, testing, collaboration with client development teams and global organizations, DevOps for live service operations, and communication with game developers, all within an Agile Scrum framework.
Responsibilities
- Requirement definition
- Design
- Coding
- Testing
- Collaboration with client development teams and global organizations
- DevOps for live service operations
- Communication with game developers
- Working within a Scrum team to divide and execute various tasks
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of server-side/backend development experience
- Basic knowledge of computer science
Skills
- Cloud Native (AWS, containers, microservices)
- Service Mesh implementation
- System requirement definition
- System design
- Java
- Python
- RDB
- KVS
- REST API
- Web technologies
- Server development and operation using Kubernetes and Linux
- Web service testing
- Test automation
- CI/CD toolchain
- GitHub
- Agile (Scrum)
- DevOps
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of server-side/backend development experience
About the Company
- PlayStation is a global leader in entertainment, producing products and services like PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, and acclaimed software titles from PlayStation Studios.
- PlayStation strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity.
- The PlayStation brand is part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
- We are committed to providing the best playground for people of all ages and races worldwide through the entertainment of games.
- Our organization and platform are global and large-scale, primarily collaborating with US teams for service development.
- We handle massive user traffic daily on our platform.
- We engage in various challenges related to English proficiency and technical skills.
- Opportunities for meetings and business trips with overseas teams exist.
- As a platformer developing our own services, our work spans B2C for general gamers and B2B for partner companies, including Web API development for massive traffic and internal Web application development.
- We encourage exploring better and new ways of working, with some teams working full-stack beyond their defined roles.
- Our teams have diverse personalities, with many employees in their 20s and 30s, fostering an environment where opinions can be shared and discussed openly.
- Many employees are passionate about games, leading to frequent conversations about our products and games.
Equal Opportunity
- Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
- We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
- PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
